Appeals court overturns convictions

Friday, March 1, 2002

NEW YORK -- In a stunning turn in one of the nation's most shocking police brutality scandals, a federal appeals court Thursday threw out the convictions of three of the four white officers sent to prison in the torture of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima.

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